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When the US Civil War began artillery had earned a stellar reputation in the Mexican-American War. This carried over to the Civil War and tactical theory regarded artillery to be equally effective as a defensive weapon as well as an offensive one. General in Chief Winfield Scott believed that artillery would prove to be the most important element of the Civil War.

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